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Wolcen skills: how to use modifiers and upgrade your active skillsHow to get Primordial Essence
How to get Primordial Essence
Wolcen has a lot of spells and abilities that you can assign to your character. But just using skills is scratching the surface, as Wolcen allows you to apply modifiers, changing how a skill works. These can be as small as increasing overall damage dealt, or major alterations that transform the skill into something else entirely.
Wolcen skills guide
No matter if you are an axe wielding warrior, an arrow flinging ranger, or a magic user, there are plenty of active skills that you can use to mix and match your abilities. ThisWolcen skills guidewill walk you through how active skills are obtained and what you need to do in order to gain more modifiers. For more in-depth and specific builds, there is our guide onWolcen builds, but this is a more general look at how active skills work.
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We also have a generalWolcen guidefull of tips and tricks for new players, while theWolcen skill tree (classes)guide has tips specifically for the rather complicated passive skill tree.
How do I learn active skills?
To assign an active skill to a slot, press the “S” key to open the skills menu. Find the skill you wish to assign, then click and drag it to the hotkey bar at the bottom right of the screen. You can assign a skill to the right mouse button, as well as the four numbered key slots. There is a fifth one that can be unlocked later on.
Upgrading active skills and modifiers
Your maximum modifier points are unlocked when an active skill has reached level 59, andyou’ll be able to equip up to 10 modifier points. Each modifier has a point cost between one and three. Those modifiers that cost one point give very minor buffs, usually to reducing cooldown or increasing ailment damage. The two point modifier have abilities that are on-brand with the base skill such as the aforementioned Noxious Smog giving Plagueburst a poison cloud that lingers after enemies explode. As for the three point modifier, these change the nature of the skill entirely, so for Plagueburst, the Pauper’s Last Rites modifier changes the base damage to fire damage.
You should now know everything you need to know to get you started looking at the active skills you already have and working out your own combos. I should warn you now that having the right set of skills will help drastically with the game’s main bosses. We’ve got a small list of boss guides below:
Wolcen boss guides
We also have our newWolcen Champion Of Stormfallguide for getting started with the end game, and ourWolcen Expeditionsguide for getting the most productivity, gold, and primordial affinity possible.
